{"id":645759,"date":"2013-03-07T13:05:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T18:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=362860"},"modified":"2013-03-07T13:05:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T18:05:44","slug":"windows-rt-dubbed-a-lemon-that-consumers-are-avoiding-in-droves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645759","title":{"rendered":"Windows RT dubbed \u2018a lemon\u2019 that consumers are \u2018avoiding in droves\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/windows-rt-criticism-362860\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/ballmershrug-e1350312454271.jpg?w=650&amp;h=415&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows RT Criticism\" title=\"Steve Ballmer\" \/><\/a><\/center>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/31\/microsoft-surface-sales-estimate-750000-312936\/\">signs of doom are all aligned for Windows RT<\/a>, which looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/06\/samsung-windows-rt-tablets-germany-361567\/\">it could soon inhibit the same plane of oblivion<\/a> currently occupied by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_Bob\">Microsoft Bob<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2013\/03\/windows-rt-is-a-lemon-heres-how-microsoft-could-make-lemonade\/\"><em>Ars Technica&#8217;s<\/em> Peter Bright has written<\/a> a thorough pre-obituary for the current incarnation of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft&#8217;s<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) first attempt at creating a tablet-centric operating system, which he calls &#8220;a lemon&#8221; that consumers are &#8220;avoiding&#8230; in droves.&#8221; Bright lists several reasons for Windows RT&#8217;s failure so far, but most of them boil down to the fact that the operating system as it&#8217;s currently built has no reason to exist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/windows-rt-criticism-362860\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/QM4oQGoe9sM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The signs of doom are all aligned for Windows RT, which looks like it could soon inhibit the same plane of oblivion currently occupied by Microsoft Bob. Ars Technica&#8217;s Peter Bright has written a thorough pre-obituary for the current incarnation of Microsoft&#8217;s (MSFT) first attempt at creating a tablet-centric operating system, which he calls &#8220;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}